Have an item that isn’t readily available, but in high demand? Perfect! So the question is, would an auction work for you? Is your product line the right fit for the world of online bidding?
The people that may be interested in your collector’s edition ALF portrait may not be on eBay that week. As auctions only go on for 10 days, they don’t reach as many people as fixed-price listings can. You might not get your money for a while, so take this into account for your cash flow. Buyers can take up to four days to pay, and auctions are known for having bidders be unable to pay last minute, forcing you to start the process all over again. That can be a lot of work, especially if you have several items up for bidding. You have to oversee the entire auction process, where fixed-priced listings are either sold or they are not. Due to the limited availability time, auctions can sell stock faster than fixed-price listings. Auctioned items can sell at a substantially higher price due to bidding wars. Auctions are great for collectible, unique, and uncommon items (coins, baseball hats, those sports cards you collected as a child).
When the auction time has elapsed, the item be sold to the highest bidder. When you’re calculating your profits, it would be wise to keep that in mind.īuyers can then bid on it incrementally and it’ll be up for 10 days. There’s also a final value fee that applies to both auctions and fixed price listings: 10.9% of the total amount of the sale, up to a maximum charge of $440 per item. It’s a pretty good deal: if your listing doesn’t sell, it can be re-listed up to eight times without you being charged again. Once you use them up, you pay a single fee to list the item and put it up for auction at a base price.
#My ebay listings old free
On eBay, each month, you receive 40 free listings. Online auctions are bit more sedate, with bidders waiting with bated breath as an algorithm rattles off the numbers and calls the winner at an appointed time. They are more interested in adding features and making an inefficient new listing tool that no one asked for, instead of making sure the platform is solid.We all know what an auction is-a terminally quick-spoken caller rattling off numbers and taking bids, driving the final cost up with every utterance. I don't know for certain, but I think the computer backend of Ebay is creaky garbage, speaking as someone who tried to use their API and test database server.
Also, I suspect there is an old database that crashed that Melvin occasionally turns on that has missing listings and stale data that updates the current masters.
#My ebay listings old update
My suspicion is that Ebay has multiple master databases and they don't update each other properly. I also discovered an Ebay hack to get your listings to appear as new without having to END and RELIST, wha ha ha. They tried to blame this on the use of EMOJIs but I removed all the emojis and this still happens. I also have issues with not being able to search my active listings by keyword and I have to use the regular Ebay search and used advanced to limit the searches by username to see my listings.
#My ebay listings old full
I also have issue with zombie listings springing up from the dead or inventory counts spontaneously changing back to full stock.